---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6352"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6352"
heading: "Engineering and manufacturing research, development, and demonstration by managers of certain nuclear weapons production facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6352"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 608 — Administrative Matters"
  - "Subchapter III — Facilities Management"
---

# §6352. Engineering and manufacturing research, development, and demonstration by managers of certain nuclear weapons production facilities

- (a) **Authority for Programs at Nuclear Weapons Productions Facilities.—** The [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) shall authorize the head of each nuclear weapons production [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to establish an Engineering and Manufacturing Research, Development, and Demonstration [Program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) under this section.
- (b) **Projects and Activities.—** The projects and activities carried out through the [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) at a nuclear weapons production [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) under this section shall support innovative or high-risk design and manufacturing concepts and technologies with potentially high payoff for the nuclear security enterprise. Those projects and activities may include—
  - (1) replacement of obsolete or aging design and manufacturing technologies;
  - (2) development of innovative agile manufacturing techniques and processes; and
  - (3) [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9), recruitment, or retention of essential personnel in critical engineering and manufacturing disciplines.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1454.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2812 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).